自省是我们这个月的主题。在日常生活中也是最重要的习惯和品德。那特殊的2020年刚过去，我们有很多东西需要自省。
孔子曾经说过：“吾日三省吾身。”如果每天都反思当日自己做过的事是否正确和自己说过的话是否妥当，那样我们就可以及时更改当天犯下的错误，更好的完善自己，这样也可以对这个世界上的人和事理解的更深了。
如果我们不自省，就学习不到一些新知识。举个例子：宋朝的沈括在读了白居易的《大林寺桃花》之后评价道：“在诗中，既然已经四月芳菲尽了，那怎么会有后面的桃花始盛开？难道诗人也自相矛盾了吗？”从这以后，沈括一直在自我反省，觉得是自己读过的书太少了，学识不深经验不足才导致了对古诗产生了误解。直到他有一次去山上考察，才发现了诗中的自相矛盾是山上和山下的海拔差距所所致。在这次自省的过程中，沈括不仅打消了诗中的自相矛盾，还学到了些新知识。
当然，如果我们不自省也不会发现自己的缺点。传说普罗米修斯创造人类，在当初造人时，他在每个人的身上都挂上了两个袋子，一个挂在胸前，一个挂在背后，里面装那人的所有丑恶的缺点。人们习惯性的把这些缺点通通装在了后面的口袋里。这样就不容易被人发现了。可是这样人们自然也就容易忽略自己的不足。回到如今，我们只顾挖掘别人的缺点而不注意自己了，这就要通过充分的自省来解决了。
当然，在最近的学校活动中我也充分感受到了自省的带给我们的有益处。比如在最近的国际象棋比赛中，我因为不知道比赛有十分钟的比赛限制而在第一轮惨败。所以我回到家后进行了反思。是什么原因导致我不了解比赛的详情呢？是因为我没有定期去看公告栏，所以之后我养成了每天去看公告栏的习惯，这在我之后的学习中的帮助很大。
在我们的学习生涯中也有很多事需要自省。这些就包括：在考完试后分析重点和自己的错题是哪里复习的不足还是没有审题；在违反校规时需要自省是不小心犯的还是有什么原因，下次避免；在写完作文或者论文后要看看有什么语法或者句型上的错误或者有什么内容上可以增加和修改的；在学院活动中自我总结获胜经验；在篮球，足球和刚刚提到的国际象棋比赛结束后复盘，想一想有什么做的好，有没有好好帮助队友，有没有好好运用战术等。
从此我们也可以看出自省的重要性。所以我们要在平常经常进行反思，这样才可以做到在困难险阻中认识自己。也印证了瓦茨的那句话：“反躬自省才是通向美德和上帝的途径。”最后，就让我们一起养成每天一省的好习惯吧！
谢谢大家！
Self-reflection
Introspection is our topic this month. It is also the most important habit and virtue in daily life. That special year 2020 has just passed and we have a lot of things to introspect.
Confucius once said, “I reflect on myself three times a day.” If we reflect every day on whether what we have done that day is correct and whether what we have said is appropriate, then we can change the mistakes we made that day in time and improve ourselves better, so that we can also understand people and things in this world more clearly.
If we do not reflect on ourselves, we will not learn something new. For example, Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty commented after reading Bai Juyi’s “Peach Blossoms in the Da Lin Temple”: “In the poem, since the fragrance of April is already finished, how can there be peach blossoms beginning to bloom later? Did the poet also contradict itself?” Since then, Shen Kuo has been self-reflecting, thinking that he had read too little and was not experienced enough to understand the ancient poem. It was only when he went to the mountains once that he discovered that the contradiction in the poem was caused by the difference in altitude between the higher and the lower part of the mountain. In the process of self-reflection, Shen not only dispelled the self-contradiction in the poem, but also learned something new.
Of course, if we do not introspect, we will not find our own shortcomings. Legend has it that Prometheus created mankind, and when he first created man, he hung two bags on each person’s body, one is in front of him and one on his back, which contained all the ugly flaws of that person. People habitually put these flaws in the back pocket. This will not be easy to be found. But then people naturally tend to ignore their own shortcomings. Back to the present day, we only dig into the shortcomings of others without paying attention to ourselves, and this has to be solved by sufficient self-reflection.
Of course, I have also felt the benefits of introspection in recent school activities. For example, in a recent chess tournament, I lost in the first round because I didn’t know that there was a 10-minute limit on the game. So I came home and did some reflection. What was the reason why I didn’t know the details of the tournament? It was because I didn’t go to the bulletin board regularly, so after that I made it a habit to go to the bulletin board every day, which helped me a lot in my study afterwards.
There are also many things in our academic career that require introspection. These include: analyzing the key points and what you got wrong after the test, whether it was a lack of revision or a failure to review the questions; reflecting on whether you broke a school rule accidentally or whether there is a reason to avoid it next time; looking at any grammatical or syntactic mistakes after writing an essay or a paper or any content that could be added or modified; summarizing your winning experience in house activities; and summarizing your winning experience in basketball, soccer, and chess. In basketball, soccer and chess, you should review the game afterwards and think about what you did well, whether you helped your teammates well, whether you used your tactics well, etc.(et cetera)
From this we can also see the importance of self-reflection. So we have to reflect often in general, so that we can do it to know ourselves in difficult and dangerous situations. It also confirms the words of Watts: “Self-reflection is the way to virtue and God.” In conclusion, let’s all develop the good habit of daily introspection!
Thank you all!